A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to two years and seven months in prison, plus a ban on public office, on a bullshit charge that he insulted members of the country’s Supreme Electoral Council, the AP reports on right wing President Recep Erdogan’s pretty obvious locking off of a likely strong challenger ahead of the June 2023 presidential elections.
The obligatory “See Trump fans, this is what actual politically motivated prosecutions of fake crimes against an opponent look like. They don’t look like your fat Orange Allah being treated deferentially by the Justice Department for months before they had no choice but to send the fucking FBI to his house to recover the classified nuclear intel he stole” paragraph goes here.